Scar Tissue: Seven Stories of Love and Wounds

Scar Tissue: Seven Stories of Love and Wounds

FROM THE FOREWORD BY J.A. KONRATH: â€œScar Tissue will make your heart race and your heart ache, often in the same sentence.â€

Not only that, but buying this collection helps battle real-life heartacheâ€”50% of every e-book sold is donated to fighting pediatric cancer.

Marcus Sakeyâ€™s thrillers have won numerous awards and been translated into twenty languages. Celebrities like Ben Affleck and Tobey Maguire have snatched up his film rights. Now from the â€œmodern master of suspenseâ€ (Chicago Sun-Times) comes seven stories of men and women pushed toâ€”and beyondâ€”the ragged edge:

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* â€œThe Desert Here and the Desert Far Awayâ€
Nick is back from Iraq, or so he keeps telling himself. But an old squad mate shows there are some battlefields you canâ€™t leave behind. (Twice short-listed for Best Short Story of 2009)

* â€œGravity and Needâ€
After having sex with a total stranger atop a $3000 television, youâ€™re supposed to walk away. But for two lonely people, thatâ€™s just the beginning of a very complicated relationship.

* â€œNo Oneâ€
The line between love and obsession is stretched razor-taut in this story where nothing is as it seemsâ€”and no one can be trusted.

* â€œCobaltâ€
In this comic send-up the dotcom era, as the world panics over the last days of Y2K, one man searches for his soul. If he could only remember where last he saw itâ€¦

* â€œThe Time Before the Lastâ€
The shortest story Iâ€™ve ever written. Itâ€™s also inspired three paintings and made my wife cry.

* â€œAs Breathingâ€
Billy Dexter has sworn off killing. But when he falls in love with the wrong woman, Dex discovers murder is a hard habit to break.

* â€œThe Days When You Were Anything Elseâ€
Frank has been many things: a conman, a hustler, a thief. But when his little girl finds herself in desperate trouble, he has one final shot at becoming something that matters.

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These seven stories â€œcontain some of the best writing in crime fiction today. You're in for quite a ride.â€ (J.A. Konrath). And itâ€™s a ride you can feel good about, with 50% of every sale going to defeat pediatric cancer.

---A PERSONAL NOTE FROM MARCUS---
In 2010, two of the best people I know received unimaginable news: their four-year-old son had an incurable brain tumor. Julian Boivin was a superhero in training, and fought an epic battle. But in the end, cancer stole this beautiful boy.

Nothing can make that right. But the Team Julian Foundation is trying to give other kids a fighting chance against this devastating disease. To help, Iâ€™m donating 50% of the proceeds from every single copy of SCAR TISSUE sold to pediatric cancer research.

Itâ€™s a small way to work toward a big change. Want to get more involved? Visit TeamJulianFoundation.com.

---MARCUS SAKEY IS:---

â€œA brilliant writer.â€
-The Huffington Post

â€œBrainy, twisty, twisted, and entirely ingenious.â€
-Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL

â€œOne of our best storytellers.â€
-Michael Connelly, bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER

â€œExactly the electric jolt crime fiction needs.â€
-Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of MYSTIC RIVER

â€œThe new reigning prince of crime fiction.â€
-The Chicago Tribune
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-07-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-07-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Scar Tissue: Seven Stories of Love and Wounds

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